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(No Model.) 1 ROGERS,

REFRIGERATOR. No. 268,538. Patented Dec. 5. 1882.

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DAVID W. ROGERS, OF PLAIN FIELD, NEW JERSEY.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,538, dated December 5, 1882, I Application filed April 17, 1882. (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID W. BOGERS Of Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

Refrigerators have been made with a central ice-chest with a grating at the bottom, and

with spaces around this ice-chest for the reception of vegetables or other articles requiring to be kept cool. p

My invention is for the purpose of protecting fruitsuch as strawberries-from direct contact with the air that circulates in the refrigerator, and at the same time maintaining a sufficiently cool temperature to prevent the strawberries or other materials becoming injured rapidly in hotweather. My refrigerator is also adapted to the reception of corned beef or other material in a brine or pickle.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the refrigerator, and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan at the line w w.

The refrigerator is made as a box, with sides a, front I), back 0, and bottom (I. These maybe made'double, if desired, with suitable filling, such as sawdust or charcoal. There should also be a lid, e, that covers the entire box, the same being hinged at the back. Within the box there are two metallic boxes,-f and g, and

. anice-chamber,g,between them. These boxes f and g are attached at their upper edges to the frame formed of the cross-pieces h and longitudinal pieces Ia. These pieces h and It intervene between the upper edges of the boxes f and g and the upper edges of the refrigerator-box, so as to firmly connect the parts and leave an air-space all around the boxes f and g, and to close those air-spaces tightly at the top. I

The cover 1 to the boxf, the cover m to the box g, and the cover'n to the ice-chamber are' hinged separately, and close tightly down into the frame h is. There may be crosspieces or blocks beneath the boxes f and 9, between them and the bottom of the refrigerator, for supporting such boxes and their contents.

The ice-chest is made with a grating at the bottom to support the ice, and the wall of the ice-chamber at back and front does not reach I fruits.

as high as the frame It 7r. Hence there are openings at 0, through which the warmer air can enter the ice-chest and circulate downward through such chest and out beneath the boxes fand g and up around them, thus keeping the contents of said boxes cool Without the circulatin g aircominginto contact with the'contents of such boxes. This is of great importance in preserving the flavor .of strawberries and The ice, coming into contact with the outside of the metal boxesfand g at one side of each, insures a sufficientlylow' temperature, and either box may be opened without opening the other, or without allowing the escape of air from the ice-chamber. I

If desired, the metal boxes fg, or either of them, may have an opening and door at one side to give access to the same, in which instance the air-circulation will still. be around such boxes in the spaces between said boxes and the external refrigerator box or case.

I am aware that refrigerators have been made in which the ice has been inserted into separate sheet-metal tanks; also, that metal or box has been between these receptacles, and

in other instances it has been atoneendof the refrigerator, and the receptacles have been suspended from their upper ends. In my refrigerator the ice is between the metal boxes, and comes close to one side of each, so as to cool the same, and provision is made for the air to circulate in each direction around the boxes.

I claim as my invention-- 7 The combination, with the metal boxes fg and a separate cover for each, of the intermediate ice-chambers, a frame around the upper parts of the ice-chamber and boxes fg, and an exterior refrigerator-box, there being air-spaces between the boxes f and g and the exterior box and circulatingopenings at 0, substantially as specified.

Signed by me this 11th day of April, A. D. 1882.

D. W. ROGERS.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINOKNEY, HAROLD SERRELL. 

